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(NELHA operations manager Jan) War, who termed the specimen "octosquid" for the way it looked, said it was about a foot long, with white suction cups, eight tentacles and an octopus head with a squidlike mantle ...
Boing Boing 2007
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Christopher Kelley, program biologist for the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, went to the natural energy lab Tuesday to pick up the preserved octosquid, rattail fish and jellyfish (also found in the filter), which had been stored in a freezer, and brought them back to UH-Manoa's oceanography department.
Boing Boing 2007
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The foot-long octosquid had the body of a squid but eight tentacles like an octopus—and it lacked the long, flowing tentacles reminiscent of squid.
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But scientists can’t seem to get their arms around this ocean-going oddity, which has been dubbed "octosquid."
john commented on the word octosquid
UH Researchers To Investigate 'Octosquid'
July 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word octosquid
I thought squid already had tentacles?
July 6, 2007
trivet commented on the word octosquid
Squid have 10 tentacles, octopi have 8...
July 6, 2007
seanahan commented on the word octosquid
Sorry Trivet, that is not the correct plural of octopus, which is from Greek, not Latin. You can say octopuses or octopodes.
July 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word octosquid
Ah--thanks trivet. Learn something new every day. :-)
July 8, 2007